Because they are paid to do so. There exist a great many people that are making money influencing things toward their sponsors favored direction. We’re (the formerly cool but sometimes asshat USA) are spending millions to do this exact thing in Europe.
Oh, the agency that had 20% of its workforce cut https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2026/02/16/fda-and-usda-staff-cuts-under-trump-raise-food-safety-risks/, then started doing stuff like this https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-revoke-52-obsolete-standards-identity-food-products are not tied to “administration changes”? Wtf are you talking about? Why are you bending over backwards to tell people this isn’t the fault of the guy who cut the fda employee base?
Because they are paid to do so. There exist a great many people that are making money influencing things toward their sponsors favored direction. We’re (the formerly cool but sometimes asshat USA) are spending millions to do this exact thing in Europe.